Less than 24 hours after a woman was shot and killed while exercising on a popular Nashville trail, detectives have made an arrest in connection with her murder.
The Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (MNPD) announced that Paul Park has been taken into custody on suspicion of murdering Alyssa Lockitt.
“Less than 24 hours after Alyssa Lockitt, 34, was shot and killed on the Millcreek Greenway, the remarkable investigative work of Homicide and Special Investigations detectives led to the death of Brentwood resident Paul Park. (29 years old) was arrested,'' police said. Statement regarding X.
Lockitt was found suffering from gunshot wounds on the Mill Creek Greenway near Old Hickory Boulevard around 5:30 p.m. Monday. Nashville Police said in a previous statement:.
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Nashville police announced that a suspect was arrested within 24 hours of Alyssa Lockitt's murder. (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department/Vanderbilt University)
Police said Rokitz was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he died.
Investigators determined that Rokitz was walking near the greenway when Park emerged from between two parked cars and began following her at a “fast pace.”
Some witnesses claimed to have heard a woman scream, “Help! He's trying to rape me,” followed by gunshots.
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Metropolitan Nashville Police say they have made an arrest in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman walking in Nashville on Monday night. (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)
Witnesses also told police they saw a man, possibly Asian, on top of Rockit before shots were fired.
Police said Rotkitz and Park then left the area, out of sight of the park's surveillance cameras. But the video showed Park returning to her gray car with “abrasions on her arms and blood on her clothes.”
Park then fled the parking lot in a dark-colored four-door sedan toward Old Hickory Boulevard.
The case took a major turn late in the evening when a witness in the area provided police with additional video footage recorded on the dashcam of a car parked at the trailhead of the greenway.
Police said a dashcam recorded a clear image of Park and his car, and another witness was able to provide part of Park's license plate number.
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A man was arrested Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman walking on a popular walking trail in Nashville, Tennessee. (X/@MNPDNashville)
Police reviewed photos of the suspects taken from a witness' dash camera by MNPD homicide detective Shannon Forsyth and believe the suspects are identical twin brothers in a suicide case they worked on in December 2021. It was announced that with this recognition, there had been further major progress in the case.
Detectives then set up surveillance at Park's Brentwood home, followed him as he left, and stopped him in Davidson County after a murder warrant was issued.
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Police said Park was being questioned at police headquarters and a murder warrant was expected to be issued late Tuesday night.
According to Vanderbilt University, Ms. Lockitz graduated from the school in 2017 and worked in Hamm's lab as a graduate student in neuroscience.
